uw cinematheque spring 2015 announcement

8/10/2019 UW Cinematheque Spring 2015 announcement

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Whether DCP or 35mm, 2K or 4K, 3D or 2D, the Cinematheque screeningswill continue to be free and open to the public, but we still rely on donationsfrom our audiences. Please help us in providing the Cinematheque with themost state-of-the-art, most versatile exhibition equipment in the region bymaking a donation today to the Cinematheques Friends of Film fund athttp://cinema.wisc.edu/donate.

While we plan for the future, the Cinematheque continues to provide youwith a bounty of cinematic treasures in 4070 Vilas, the Chazen Museum ofArt and the Marquee Theater at Union South. In addition to the above-mentioned Orson Welles salute, our January-May calendar includes anothercentennial tribute to a maestro of Italian comedy, Mario Monicelli. Plus, agreat slate of films from Universal Pictures in 1971, Polish masterpiecesselected by Martin Scorsese, new Argentine cinema, the schlocky and thesublime from Cannon Films, and in-person visits from Cineteca di BolognasGuy Borlee and acclaimed screenwriter/director (and Pewaukee native)David Koepp.

All Cinematheque screenings are free and open to the public. Please seebelow for a complete listing of programs and series descriptions. TheCinematheques website (http://cinema.wisc.edu) will go live with the fallcalendar at noon on Monday, August 11 at 12 noon.

Unless otherwise noted below, programs screen at:

UW Cinematheque

4070 Vilas Hall

821 University Avenue

Madison, WI 53706

Sunday Cinematheque at the Chazen series (Monicelli and Universal 71):

Chazen Museum of Art750 University Avenue

Madison, WI 53706

Marquee Monday screenings and May 9 Comm Arts Showcase screening:

Marquee Theater at Union South

1308 W. Dayton StreetMadison, WI 53715

Admission free for all screenings, seating limited. No admission 15

minutes after scheduled start times.


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Our website: http://cinema.wisc.edu

For photos, please contact Ben Reiser: [email protected]

For additional information and advance screener requests contact:

Jim Healy, (608) 263-9643, [email protected] Reiser, (608) 262-3627, [email protected]

SERIES AT-A-GLANCE:

WISCONSINS OWN ORSON WELLES: A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION

(PART I)

May 6, 2015 marks 100 years since Orson Welles was born in Kenosha,Wisconsin. One of the leading lights in the history of international cinema,Welles has inspired succeeding generations of film artists with an arrestinguse of sound an image, singular interpretations of literary classics, and a

celebratory, but fundamentally tragic vision of the human condition. TheCinematheque will celebrate the career of this magnificent performer andfilmmaker year-round with screenings that explore Welles multi-facetedtalents. January and February 2015 selections highlight Welles as thecomplete auteur, beginning with his acknowledged masterwork, CitizenKane. Look for additional Welles-iana in the Wisconsin Film Festival, April 9-16.

THE CANNON CANON

Israeli director Menahem Golan and his cousin and business partner Yoram

Globus moved to Sunset Boulevard in the 1980s after they founded CannonFilms. Shamans of sleaze, Golan-Globus manufactured a decades worth ofmovies that typically veered towards exploitation fare and generallyreflected their own strange and slightly off version of classic Hollywoodentertainment. Nothing if not prolific, the annual Cannon slate occasionallyincluded a critically recognized artistic effort made by an internationallyacclaimed director like John Cassavetes Love Streams, AndreiKonchalovskys Runaway Train, Barbet Schroeders Barflyor Jean-LucGodards King Lear, perhaps the most experimental of all Cannon releases.All of these features are included in this series, along with a newdocumentary The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films. To sample

some of the less refined, but still fun, Golan-Globus productions, see ourMarquee Mondays: Cannon Fodder series, also in this calendar.

MARQUEE MONDAYS: CANNON FODDER

In collaboration with the student-run WUD Film Committee, theCinematheque proudly presents a quartet of gonzo exploitation featuresreleased in the 1980s by Cannon Films, co-founded by those legendarygurus of the grindhouse, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus. No arthousefare here (see The Cannon Canon series, also in this calendar), these


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Golan-Globus selections feature copious amounts of sex, violence, andbreakdancing, plus space vampires, giggling street thugs, and an aerobicsinstructor possessed by a demonic ninja! Each of the four features, screenedin the Marquee Theater at Union South, will be preceded by a mouth-watering trailer reel that tease other vintage Cannon goodies. Grab a beer inthe Sett and join us for the fun!

SUNDAY CINEMATHEQUE AT THE CHAZEN: MARIO MONICELLI

COMEDIES

2015 marks the centennial of one of Italian cinemas finest directors, MarioMonicelli (1915-2010). A master of the commedia allitaliana, Monicellismovies deliver big laughs, often while exploring deeper societal issues likethe concerns of the working class and Italys frequently dysfunctionalpolitical system. A satirist with a gentle touch, Monicelli infuses his movieswith compassion for his sometimes downtrodden characters, like the gang ofmisfit criminals in Big Deal on Madonna Streetor the trio of New Years Everevelers in The Passionate Thief. All of the feature film titles in this series willscreen in 35mm prints imported from Italy. Special thanks to Film Forums

Bruce Goldstein, and Paola Ruggiero of Luce-Cinecitt.

SUNDAY CINEMATHEQUE AT THE CHAZEN: UNIVERSAL 71

In 1971, one of the great years in Hollywood history, Universal Picturesreleased a slate of high quality original productions with low-to-mediumbudgets that, collectively, went unmatched by any other studios annuallineup during the early 1970s. Inspired by Columbia Pictures success withEasy Rider, Universal provided full creative freedom to many up-and-comingdirectors like Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, John Cassavetes, Milos Forman,and Monte Hellman. Meanwhile, old Hollywood hands like Don Siegel andRobert Wise were encouraged to make daring stylistic choices. Whilecritically acclaimed, few of the Universal 71 releases found wide acceptancefrom audiences at the time of their original release, though their reputationamong cinephiles has grown steadily over the subsequent five decades. Allof these selections will be shown in 35mm prints.

RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH X 2

Before he became an Oscar-winning producer/director, the late RichardAttenborough was one of the great leading men of post-war British cinema.Frequently an anti-hero, Attenborough never shied away from taking onunlikeable characters, and his sensitive, observant approach to screen acting

always brought a profoundly human dimension to even those mostoutwardly despicable characters he portrayed. As examples, we offerAttenboroughs turns as Graham Greenes murderous thug Pinkie in BrightonRockand as the notorious serial killer John Christie in 10 Rillington Place.Both films will be screened in excellent 35mm prints.

LACIS PRESENTS NEW ARGENTINE CINEMA

Since the appearance of Martin Rejtman's debut feature Rapado in 1992,Argentina produced one of the world's most distinctive national cinemas,


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introducing visionary new auteurs like Lisandro Alonso, Lucrecia Martel, andPablo Trapero. Focusing on recent Argentine art cinema, this year's Festivalde Cine kicks off with Alsonso's latest, a high-profile internationalcollaboration starring Viggo Mortensen. Additional highlights range from"Godfather of New Argentine Cinema" Rejtman's first feature in over adecade to an award-winning microbudget indie by a first-time director. Thisseries is fully funded by the UWs Department of Latin American, Caribbeanand Iberian Studies. Special thanks to Alberto Vargas and AngelaBuongiorno.

MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS MASTERPIECES OF POLISH CINEMAThe rich and varied national cinema of Poland will be explored in this excitingsurvey of great Polish features spanning the late 1950s to the late 1980s.Released by Milestone Films, the newly restored selections have beenpersonally curated by American filmmaker and cinephile Martin Scorsese.The series includes three movies by the Oscar-winning groundbreaker ofcontemporary Polish cinema, Andrzej Wajda, plus exciting work directed byother giant talents like Krzysztof Kieslowski, Agnieszka Holland and Jerzy

Skolimowski. The series is co-presented with the UWs Department of SlavicLanguages and Literature.

IL CINEMA RITROVATO ON TOUR

Each summer, the Cineteca di Bologna, one of Europes most renownedarchives for film restoration and preservation, organizes one of the worldsmost unique film festivals, Il Cinema Ritrovato ("Rediscovered cinema").Eight memorable days to dive into cinemas past, Cinema Ritrovato alsooffers opportunities to meet renowned experts on film history as well ascelebrated filmmakers. More than 360 titles are presented annually in fivecinemas and on a giant screen in Bologna's Piazza Maggiore. In the words ofthe former Artistic Director, the late Peter von Bagh, Il Cinema Ritrovato ispure heaven for cinphiles. The next edition will take place from June 27 thto July 4th, 2015. This series of Cineteca di Bologna restorations that havepremiered at recent editions of the festival has been curated by Guy Borle,coordinator of Il Cinema Ritrovato for Cineteca di Bologna) and UWCinematheques Jim Healy. Special thanks to David Bordwell; Gian LucaFarinelli, Andrea Meneghelli, Carmen Accaputo (Cineteca di Bologna); JoshMorrison (Flicker Alley).

PREMIERE SHOWCASE

Premiere Showcase is the Cinematheques effort to bring the boldest andmost exciting new cinema back to the big screen. Crafted with the samecuratorial acuity we bring to our repertory series, Premiere Showcasepresents exciting new work by contemporary directors that would otherwisehave no theatrical venue in the area. In addition to new films making theirlocal premieres in our LACIS and Special Presentations series, our Spring2015 lineup also includes the winner of the Palme DOr at the most recentCannes Film Festival, Nuri Bilge Ceylans Winter Sleep.


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SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

Spring 2015 special presentations include an inside look at Japans legendaryStudio Ghibli, screening alongside what will reportedly be Ghibli co-founderHayao Miyazakis final feature. Also, a rare pair of black-and-white,independently produced psycho-sexual films noirreleased in the early1960s, as well as a double bill of early features from talented Hollywoodauteur Tay Garnett. Plus, a visit from noted Hollywood screenwriter/directorand Wisconsin native David Koepp; two avant-garde 16mm classics; anarchival 35mm print of Ethel Merman in Call Me Madam; and a new 4krestoration of the Beatles debut film,A Hard Days Night.

SCREENINGS AT-A-GLANCE:

FRI., 1/23, 7 p.m.PREMIERE SHOWCASEKINGDOM OF DREAMS AND MADNESS (YUME TO KYOKI NO OKOKU)Japan | 2013 | DCP | 118 min. | Japanese with English subtitlesDirector: Mami Sunada

Documentary filmmaker Sunada has been given unprecedented accessinside Japans Studio Ghibli as she follows the famously private animationdirector Hayao Miyazaki through almost every production phase of his finalfeature, The Wind Rises. At the same time, Ghiblis co-founder IsaoTakahata completes his own movie, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya. Thoughboth directors finish with acclaimed works of art, the working methods ofthese two masters of cinema are revealed to be quite distinct.

SAT., 1/24, 2 p.m.SPECIAL PRESENTATION

THE WIND RISES (KAZE TACHINU)Japan | 2013 | DCP | 126 min. | Japanese with English subtitlesDirector: Hayao MiyazakiIn what he has proclaimed will be his final film, Oscar-winning director andStudio Ghibli co-founder Miyazaki fictionalizes the youth and youngadulthood of one of his personal idols: Jiro Horikoshi, designer of theMitsubishi Zero fighter plane. Jiros experiences as a University student andas a burgeoning aeronautical engineer are juxtaposed with fantasysequences where he is mentored by an Italian named Caproni. Miyazakisemotional, deeply felt swan song exhibits the joys and bittersweet triumphsin the life of its well-intentioned artist hero, whose invention nonetheless

contributed significantly to the calamity of war.

SAT., 1/24, 7 p.m.WELLESCITIZEN KANEUSA | 1941 | 35mm | 119 min.Director: Orson WellesCast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore


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Welles stars as Charles Foster Kane in his classic first feature, a thinlydisguised interpretation of the life of newspaper magnate William RandolphHearst. The 25-year-old director took complete advantage of the freedomgiven to him by RKO Studios, breaking narrative and visual conventions andblazing new paths all along the way. Kaneis still influencing filmmakers tothis day but dont let the idea that it might be the greatest movie ever madekeep you from seeing it - it also happens to be extremely entertaining.

FRI., 1/30, 7 p.m.CANNONTHE GO-GO BOYS: THE INSIDE STORY OF CANNON FILMSIsrael, France | 2014 | DCP | 88 min.Director: Hilla MedaliaIn the 1970s, the late Israeli director Menahem Golan, along with his cousinand producing partner Yoram Globus, experienced significant financialsuccess with a handful of home-based productions (particularly the LemonPopsicleseries of raunchy sex comedies). The daring duo seized anopportunity to go international in the 1980s when they moved to Hollywood,

founded Cannon Films and unleashed a prolific annual slate of low-budgetreleases, the majority of which were exercises in exploitation and bad taste.Deans of dreck, the patient, cautious Globus and the enthusiastic,sometimes combative Golan granted interviews for this official version ofthe rise and fall of Cannon (see also the upcoming Electric Boogaloo: TheWild, Untold Story of Cannon Films).

FRI., 1/30, 8:45 p.m.CANNONRUNAWAY TRAIN

USA | 1985 | 35mm | 111 min.Director: Andrei KonchalovskyCast: Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De MornayIn Oscar-nominated performances, Jon Voight and Eric Roberts play convictswho escape from their wintry Alaskan prison and hop a ride on a barrelingfreight train without an engineer. The tension mounts as the desperate menrealize their situation and attempt to slow down the title behemoth. Russianexile Konchalovsky, adapting a previously unfilmed Akira Kurosawa script,proves himself a master of the action movie and existential drama.

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WELLESTHE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONSUSA | 1942 | 35mm | 88 min.Director: Orson WellesCast: Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt, Agnes MooreheadWelles anticipated follow-up to Citizen Kaneis a multi-generational familysaga set at the turn-of-the-century, adapted from Booth Tarkingtons classicnovel. Kanecomposer Bernard Herrmann pulled his name from the creditswhen his music - along with much of Welles original vision was altered by


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the studio. It nonetheless remains a compelling, technically brilliant, andheartbreaking film.

SAT., 1/31, 8:45 p.m.WELLESTHE STRANGERUSA | 1946 | 35mm | 95 min.Director: Orson WellesCast: Orson Welles, Loretta Young, Edward G. RobinsonIn this suspenseful film noir, Welles plays Franz Kindler, a war criminal livingincognito in a peaceful Connecticut town. Posing as schoolteacher CharlesRankin, newly married to the pretty and devoted Mary (Young), Kindler isbiding his time until the Nazi party can rise again. But War CrimesCommission officer Mr. Wilson (Robinson) suspects Rankin and sets out toprove his true identity before Rankin eliminates everyone who threatens toexpose him. With the chiaroscuro lighting typical of noirand Wellessignature deep staging and unusual camera placement, The Strangeris atight, tense thriller, and its critique of Nazism is strengthened by the

inclusion of actual footage of the concentration camps. (AM)

SUN., 2/1, 2 p.m.ChazenMONICELLIBIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET (I SOLTI IGNOTI)Italy | 1958 | 35mm | 106 min. | Italian with English subtitlesDirector: Mario MonicelliCast: Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, TotOne of the most beloved and oft-imitated (see Crackers, Welcome to

Collinwoodand Woody Allens Small-Time Crooks) of Italian comedies,Monicellis classic follows a sad-sack bunch of would-be thieves as theymeticulously plan an elaborate heist that goes hilariously wrong. Thefrequently slapstick antics of the hapless crooks are nicely offset by therealistic working-class locations.

MON., 2/2, 7 p.m.Marquee TheaterMARQUEE MONDAYSBREAKINUSA | 1984 | 35mm | 90 min.

Director: Sam FirstenbergCast: Lucinda Dickey, Adolfo Shabba-Doo Quinones, Michael BoogalooShrimp ChambersPop and lock til you just cant stop - the low-budget smash of 84 returns tothe big screen! An aspiring dancer (Dickey) finds new inspiration when shemeets Venice Beach breakdancers Ozone (Quinones) and Turbo (Chambers).The trio finds success at underground clubs and on the street, but will theybe accepted by the serious dance establishment? Rushed into productionby Cannon Films in a race to reach screens before the bigger-budgeted Beat


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Street, Breakin is a model of exploitation filmmaking that is still funentertainment. A sequel, Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloohit theaters onlyseven months later. Preceding the feature, 20 minutes of vintage Cannontrailers!

FRI., 2/6, 7 p.m.CANNONLOVE STREAMSUSA | 1984 | 35mm | 141 min.Director: John CassavetesCast: John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Seymour CasselRobert (Cassavetes), reunited with the child he never knew, is a man unableto love. His sister Sarah (Rowlands) loves too much, and its cost her thecustody of her daughter. When Sarah comes to visit Robert, it leads to aseries of sequences that are alternately funny, life affirming, anddevastating. Cassavetes final masterpiece is a rich, original, emotionallymagnificent film. (Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader)

SAT., 2/7, 7 p.m.WELLESOTHELLOItaly | 1952 | DCP | 92 min.Director: Orson WellesCast: Orson Welles, Michael MacLiammoir, Suzanne CloutierHands down the greatest filmed adaptation of any Shakespeare play,Welless fleet, lively take on the Bards classic is infused with cinematicvigor. Shot on the fly over four years in Morocco and Italy, this self financedpassion project remains a model of low budget ingenuity and a triumph ofediting. Halving the plays running time yet remaining true to its spirit,Welles conjures a hurtling vision that belies its piecemeal production.Shakespeare is subjected not to a decorous homage but to an enrapturedwrestle. There is no excuse not to see it (The New Yorker). (MK)

SUN., 2/8, 2 p.m.ChazenMONICELLIFOR LOVE AND GOLD (LARMATA BRANCALEONE)Italy | 1966 | 35mm | 120 min. | Italian with English subtitles

Director: Mario MonicelliCast: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Gian Maria VolontIn the plague-ridden middle-ages, a bluster-filled knight (Gassman, in one ofhis funniest and finest performances) incompetently leads a group of put-upon peasants to help him take over the small village of Aurocastro...butsurprises are in store! Monicellis effective mixture of absurd comedy andperiod realism has earned this surrealist hit comparisons with Monty Pythonand the Holy Grail.


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THURS., 2/12, 7 p.m.SPECIAL PRESENTATION - J.J. MURPHY IN PERSON!WAVELENGTHCanada | 1967 | 16mm | 45 min.Director: Michael Snow+PRINT GENERATIONCanada | 1974 | 16mm | 50 min.Director: J.J. MurphyA masterpiece of structural cinema, J.J. Murphys Print Generation consistsof a single minute of 16mm footage (sixty one-second shots) that has beenprinted and re-printed 50 times. Each step further degrades the images,akin to photocopying a photocopy. The film begins with the finalgenerationat which point the images have been reduced to little more thanshuddering constellations of film grainand advances generation bygeneration. The images become clearer at each pass, until finally achievingfull, crystalline resolution at the midpoint. Then, with a sense ofheartbreaking inevitability, the generations recede, and the images

deteriorate back into illegibility. An exceedingly rare kind of avant-gardefilm that manages to be at once formally visionary and profoundly moving,Print Generationwill be preceded by another landmark of structural cinema,Michael Snows Wavelength. Professor of Film at UW Madison, J.J. Murphywill be on hand for a post-screening discussion. (MK)

FRI., 2/13, 7 p.m.CANNONBARFLYUSA | 1987 | 35mm | 97 min.

Director: Barbet SchroederCast: Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Frank StalloneIn one of this greatest performances, Rourke is poet and boozehound HenryChinaski a character completely inspired by screenplay author CharlesBukowski. Director Schroeder captures just the right amount of Los Angelessleaze in recounting Henrys scrappy and funny adventures, which includebrawling with bartender Eddie (Stallone) or romancing fellow barfly Wanda(Dunaway, who is every bit Rourkes equal).

SAT., 2/14, 7 p.m.WELLES

THE LADY FROM SHANGHAIUSA | 1948 | DCP | 87 min.Director: Orson WellesCast: Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett SloaneThis quintessential piece of film noirfeatures a blonde Hayworth starringalongside producer, director and screenwriter (and second husband) Welles.His cinematic genius is evident in this thrilling story involving lust, betrayaland murder, particularly in the startling, climactic hall of mirrors sequence.Hayworth is one of the movies great femmes fatales.


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SUN., 2/15, 2 p.m.ChazenMONICELLITHE PASSIONATE THIEF (RISATE DI GIOIA)Italy | 1960 | 35mm | 106 min. | Italian with English subtitlesDirector: Mario MonicelliCast: Anna Magnani, Ben Gazzara, TotA handsome American crook (Gazzara) recruits a fame-hungry movie extra(Magnani) and her fellow performer (Tot) in his efforts to pickpocket at aswanky New Years Eve party. Soon, the trio are on an all-night odysseyacross Rome, encountering ugly Americans, German aristocrats, andassorted other swanky celebrations and celebrants. Monicelli takes anumber of digs at the Church and the dolce vita of the privileged (evenpoking fun at the Fellini film); his heart is with the little people, who cling totheir humor and dignity as means of survival. (Ted Shen, Chicago Reader)

FRI., 2/20, 7 p.m.CANNONKING LEARUSA | 1987 | 35mm | 90 min.Director: Jean-Luc GodardCast: Burgess Meredith, Molly Ringwald, Woody AllenShakespeares play is radically revised by Godard to now include referencesto the Chernobyl disaster, passages from Virginia Woolf and numerousruminations on cinema, including this films own peculiar production history.Perhaps the artiest - and oddest - feature ever released by Cannon Films,the once-in-a-lifetime cast also includes theater director Peter Sellars, LeosCarax, Julie Delpy, author (and Cannon director) Norman Mailer, andGoddard himself as Professor Pluggy. The greatest film of all time. (RichardBrody, The New Yorker)

SAT., 2/21, 7 p.m.WELLESCONFIDENTIAL REPORT (MR. ARKADIN)France, Spain, Switzerland | 1955 | 35mm | 98 min.Director: Orson WellesCast: Orson Welles, Paola Mori, Akim Tamiroff

In an almost parodic variation on Citizen Kane as well as The Third Man,Welles plays the enormously wealthy and always elusive Gregory Arkadin.His motives mysterious, the billionaire hires a young con artist (RobertArden) to look into his past. The investigation leads to a number ofsurprising revelations. Elaborately designed with deliberately theatricalmake-up, costumes, and sets, Confidential Report offers another thoughtfulWellesian meditation on the art of fakery.

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WELLESF FOR FAKEFrance, Iran, West Germany | 1973 | 35mm | 89 min.Director: Orson WellesCast: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Joseph CottenOne of the greatest, and most influential, of all essay films, Welless latemasterpiece is a consideration of fraudulent things, including art forgery,Clifford Irvings fake Howard Hughes biography and Welless own originalWar of the Worldsradio broadcast. Inventively repurposing stock footageand parts of another documentary directed by Francois Reichenbach, Wellesalso serves as the charming narrator and host.

SUN., 2/22, 2 p.m.ChazenMONICELLIWE WANT THE COLONELS (VOGLIAMO I COLONELLI)Italy | 1973 | 35mm | 105 min. | Italian with English subtitlesDirector: Mario Monicelli

Cast: Ugo Tognazzi, Claude Dauphin, Duilio Del PreteAdvocating for a harder line, a fascist party deputy (La Cage Aux Folles starTognazzi) decides to overthrow his fellow officers. Inspired by the real-lifecoup attempt of Prince Valerio Borghese, Monicellis black comedy evokes anhilarious and sometimes grotesque vision of contemporary Italian politicsand society.

FRI., 2/27, 7 p.m.PREMIERE SHOWCASEWINTER SLEEP (KIS UYKUSU)

Turkey, France, Germany | 2014 | 35mm | 196 min. | Turkish with EnglishsubtitlesDirector: Nuri Bilge CeylanCast: Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Szen, Demet AkbagWinner of the Palme dOr at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, this engrossingpsychological study from Turkish master Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon aTime in Anatolia) has justly earned comparisons to the best of Chekov andBergman. The proprietors of a picturesque hotel ensconced in theCappadocian mountainside, a wealthy, vain former actor, his young wife,and his recently divorced sister pass the chilly offseason engaged in a seriesof increasingly barbed ttettes. Written with novelistic detail, Winter

Sleep grapples with morality with an exactness that is fiercely intelligent andoverwhelmingly powerful.

SAT., 2/28, 7 p.m.WELLESTOUCH OF EVILUSA | 1958 | 35mm | 111 min.Director: Orson WellesCast: Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh


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Screenwriter and Director Welles gives one of his greatest performances asHank Quinlan, the corpulent and corrupt head of police in a sleazy town onthe U.S.-Mexico border. When a bomb explodes at the border crossing (theconclusion of a dazzling extended opening shot), Mexican official MikeVargas (Heston) clashes with Quinlan during the investigation, jeopardizingthe safety of Vargas new bride, Susie (Leigh). Removed from the productionduring editing, Orson Welles wrote a lengthy memo requesting severalchanges in editing and sound--work that has been carried out in this versionby a team including Oscar-winning editor Walter Murch.

SUN., 3/1, 2 p.m.ChazenMONICELLICARO MICHELEItaly | 1976 | 35mm | 108 min. | Italian with English subtitlesDirector: Mario MonicelliCast: Mariangela Melato, Delphine Seyrig, Lou CastelMonicelli won the Best Director award at the Berlin Film Festival for this

trenchant and observant look at a bourgeois family whose lives are disruptedby the anarchic free-spirit (Lina Wertmuller regular Melato) who has marriedthe familys only son, Michele. Things are complicated when the youngwoman gives birth just as her husband is killed in a student demonstration.

MON., 3/2, 7 p.m.Marquee TheaterMARQUEE MONDAYSNINJA III: THE DOMINATIONUSA | 1984 | 35mm | 95 min.

Director: Sam FirstenbergCast: Lucinda Dickey, Sho Kosugi, Jordan BennettReleased a month before The Terminatorand five years before Warlock,Ninja IIIanticipates both of those films with this tale of Ninja possessionthat starts with a massacre on a golf course and only gets more gonzo fromthere. Featuring female aerobic instructor ninjas, a ninja hot tub attack, aninja exorcism, and V8 as a sexual aid, this classic Cannon schlocktacularmust be seen on the big screen to be believed. (BR)

FRI., 3/6, 7 p.m.POLISH MASTERPIECES

ASHES AND DIAMONDS (POPIOL I DIAMENT)Poland | 1958 | DCP | 96 min. | Polish with English subtitlesDirector: Andrzej WajdaCast: Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Adam PawlikowskiIn the movie that cleared the way for a new wave of Polish cinema, a soldierduring the final days of WWII is ordered to assassinate an official but hismission is stalled when he falls in love with a barmaid. Using powerful andmemorable black and white imagery, Wajdas classic is a potent reminder ofhow life and love are not compatible with war.


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FRI., 3/6, 8:45 p.m.POLISH MASTERPIECESINNOCENT SORCERERS (NIEWINNI CZARODZIEJE)Poland | 1960 | DCP | 87 min. | Polish with English subtitlesDirector: Andrzej WajdaCast: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Zbigniew Cybulski, Roman PolanskiA cocky and freewheeling young doctor who spends his evenings playingjazz in nightclubs meets the girl of his dreams, but shes not so easilyattainable. Polanski appears as one of the heros layabout pals. The score isby Polanskis regular composer in the 1960s, Krzysztof Komeda, who alsoappears as himself.

SAT., 3/7, 7 p.m.LACISJAUJAArgentina, Denmark | 2014 | DCP | 108 min. | Spanish, Danish with Englishsubtitles

Director: Lisandro AlonsoCast: Viggo Mortensen, Villbjork Agger Malling, Ghita NrbyMortensen stars in this majestic, visually stunning new work by one ofArgentinas leading art cinema directors. In an almost impossibly verdant1880s Patagonia, a Danish general abandons his company to search for his15 year-old daughter, who has eloped with a soldier. Exquisitely framed inthe classic Academy aspect ratio and boasting a filmic texture and colorpallet that evokes the richness of vintage Technicolor, this ravishing andmysterious quasi-western is among the boldest films of the year. (MK)

SAT., 3/7, 9 p.m.LACISTWO SHOTS FIRED (DOS DISPAROS)Argentina, Chile | 2014 | DCP | 104 min. | Spanish with English subtitlesDirector: Martin RejtmanCast: Susana Pampin, Rafael Federman, Benjamin CoelhoWidely acknowledged as the godfather of New Argentine Cinema,writer/director Rejtman is back in top form with this characteristicallydigressive and absurdist dramedy, his first fiction feature in eleven years.When sixteen year-old Mariano finds a gun in his family home, heinexplicably shoots himselftwice. Even more inexplicably, he survives, and

the remainder of the film hops between narrative threads to track the impactof Marianos impulse on his friends and family. [Rejtman has] one of thesharpest, savviest, and must humane comic sensibilities in contemporarycinema his fatalistic, obsessive-compulsive, bone-dry jokes get funnier andmore profound the longer they are kept up (Cinema Scope).

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THE LAST MOVIEUSA | 1971 | 35mm | 108 min.Director: Dennis HopperCast: Dennis Hopper, Julie Adams, Peter FondaIn South America to make a Sam Fuller western, a stuntman (Hopper) findshimself involved with Peruvian villagers who are making their own imaginarymovie. Pulled from circulation after just a few weeks of release, Hoppershard-to-see follow-up to Easy Rider is a highly unusual piece of work. Noother studio-released film of the period is quite so formally audacious.(Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader)

WEDS., 3/11, 3:30 p.m.SPECIAL PRESENTATION - DAVID KOEPP IN PERSON!WAR OF THE WORLDSUSA | 2004 | 35mm | 116 min.Director: Steven SpielbergCast: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Tim RobbinsFaced with an invasion of well-armed aliens from outer space, working class

divorced father Ray (Cruise) faces numerous deadly challenges in his effortsto protect his daughter (Fanning) and son (Justin Chatwin). Matching theintensity ofJawsandJurassic Park, Spielbergs update of H.G. Wellsscanonized novel deftly infuses the hyperbolic sci-fi premise with post 9/11anxieties. Screenplay co-author David Koepp, who also wrote the scripts forthe two Spielberg-directedJurassic Parkmovies, will talk about his writing ina post-screening discussion.

THURS., 3/12, 7 p.m.SPECIAL PRESENTATION - DAVID KOEPP IN PERSON!

GHOST TOWNUSA | 2008 | 35mm | 102 min.Director: David KoeppCast: Ricky Gervais, Tea Leoni, Greg KinnearGervais, in his own inimitable way, plays Bertrum Pincus, a misanthropicdentist who, after undergoing a minor surgical procedure, wakes up with theability to see dead people, all of whom want something from our hero. Apossibility for romance is introduced when one ghost (Kinnear) asks Bertramto look after the widow (Leoni) he left behind. One of the most underratedcomedies of the last decade is kept afloat by a witty script and greatperformances by the entire cast, including Kristin Wiig, sidesplitting as a

barely competent surgeon. Writer/director Koepp will join us in person for apost-screening discussion.

FRI., 3/13, 7 p.m.POLISH MASTERPIECESEROICAPoland | 1958 | DCP | 85 min. | Polish with English subtitlesDirector: Andrzej MunkCast: Edward Dziewonski, Barbara Polomska, Ignacy Machowski


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A brilliant and brave black comedy set during the Nazi occupation of Poland,Munks feature tells two stories. In the first, a war-avoiding coward proves tobe a hero in spite of himself. Next, a soldier fed up with military pretenses,attempts a hopeless escape from a prison camp. Munk [was] an unusuallycaustic observer of his countrymen's collective emotional hangups (J.R.Jones, Chicago Reader).

FRI., 3/13, 8:45 p.m.POLISH MASTERPIECESWALKOVER (WALKOWER)Poland | 1965 | DCP | 77 min. | Polish with English subtitlesDirector: Jerzy SkolimowskiCast: Jerzy Skolimowski, Aleksandra Zawieruszanka, Krzysztof ChamiecIn the second of four autobiographical features, writer/director/actorSkolimowski (Deep End) plays a fictional version of himself: a working classoutsider who becomes a boxer at the factory where he is employed. Moodyand gritty, Skolimowski takes a hard look at competition in business andsports.

SAT., 3/14, 7 p.m.LACISTHE DEAD MAN AND BEING HAPPY (EL MUERTO Y SER FELIZ)Argentina, Spain, France | 2012 | DCP | 92 min. | Spanish with EnglishsubtitlesDirector: Javier RebolloCast: Jos Sacristn, Roxana Blanco, Valeria AlonsoThis wry, literate, and existential comedy kicks off when a dying hit manflees his Buenos Aires hospital bed and embarks on a cross-country road trip

to finish one last job. Along the way, he picks up a much younger woman,who, sitting shotgun in his Ford Falcon, becomes an object of lust, surrogatedaughter, and de facto nurse. Fueled by dueling narrators, this shaggy,formally playful gem won multiple awards at the San Sebastian Film Festival.(MK)

SAT., 3/14, 8:45 p.m.LACISTHE USE OF A MAGAZINE RACK (LA UTILIDAD DE UN REVISTERO)Argentina | 2013 | HD | 115 min. | Spanish with English subtitlesDirector: Adriano Salgado

Cast: Mara Ucedo, Yanina GrudenTwo women meet for a job interview that spills over into an intimatedialogue that encompasses their secret loves, fears, and dreams. Filmedentirely in a single shot and over the course of a single conversation, thisone-of-a-kind indie won Best Argentine Film and Best Argentine Director atthe 2013 Mar del Plata Film Festival. Arresting a great, different,experimental and entertaining debut from a director that is worth keeping upwith (International Federation of Film Critics). (MK)


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SUN., 3/15, 2 p.m.ChazenUNIVERSAL 71MINNIE AND MOSKOWITZUSA | 1971 | 35mm | 114 min.Director: John CassavetesCast: Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel, Val AveryIn this unlikely tale of romance, brash parking lot attendant SeymourMoskowitz (Cassel) sets his sights on reserved museum curator MinnieMoore (Rowlands). Funny, tender, and sometimes outrageous, this gemfrom Cassavetes (who appears as Minnies married boyfriend) is a love storylike no other.

FRI., 3/20, 7 p.m.CINETECA DI BOLOGNATOUKI BOUKISenegal | 1973 | 35mm | 85 min. | Wolof, Arabic, French with Englishsubtitles

Director: Djibril Diop MambtyCast: Magaye Niang, Mareme Niang, Aminata FallWanting to leave Dakar, Mory (Niang) dreams of leaving for Paris with thewoman he loves, and embarks on a series of petty crimes. Mixing elementsof fantasy with a classic morality tale, Touki Bouki(the title means HyenasJourney) was Senegalese cinema legend Mambtys first feature. One ofthe greatest of all African films and almost certainly the most experimental(Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader). Preceded by Ousmane SembenesBorrom Sarret(1969, DCP, 20 min.), often considered the first African filmmade by a black African.

SAT., 3/21, 2 p.m.CINETECA DI BOLOGNALOVE EVERLASTING (MA LAMOUR MIO NON MUORE!)Italy | 1913 | DCP | 78 min.Director: Mario CaseriniCast: Lyda Borelli, Mario Bonnard, Gian Paolo RosminoLyda Borelli, one of the great divas of the Italian theater, stars in a romantictale of espionage and betrayal that is set, partially, in the world of thetheater. One of only a few feature films Borelli appeared in, Love Everlastingalso offers tantalizing glimpses of the actresss celebrated stage

performances, including her turn as the title character in Oscar WildesSalome. After more than a century, this terrific silent melodrama is still anemotional powerhouse. The movie will be presented with a synchronoussoundtrack featuring a score composed by Francesca Badalini.

SAT., 3/21, 4 p.m.CINETECA DI BOLOGNABRAND XUSA | 1969 | DCP | 87 min.


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Director: Wynn ChamberlainCast: Taylor Mead, Sally Kirkland, Tally BrownThis funny and Brechtian slice of Vietnam era subversion is largely a vehiclefor the almost otherworldly Taylor Mead. An underground cinema mainstay,Mead appears here in a series of bizarre short sketches that lampoontelevision programming and commercials, two things that are, pointedly,almost impossible to tell apart. The cast includes a number of othersignificant counter-cultural figures, including Abbie Hoffman, Sam Shepard,and Warhol Factory regulars Candy Darling and Ultra Violet.

SAT., 3/21, 7 p.m.CINETECA DI BOLOGNAJOURNEY TO ITALY (VIAGGIO IN ITALIA)Italy | 1954 | DCP | 85 min.Director: Roberto RosselliniCast: Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Maria MaubanIn one of the greatest of all Italian films, Bergman and Sanders are adissatisfied married couple vacationing near Naples. The couple are forced to

reckon with their declining relationship after an emotional and memorablevisit to the ruins of Pompeii. Spiritual and profoundly moving, Viaggio inItaliais A crucial work, truthful and mysterious (Dave Kehr, ChicagoReader).

SUN., 3/22, 2 p.m.ChazenUNIVERSAL 71THE BEGUILEDUSA | 1971 | 35mm | 109 min.

Director: Don SiegelCast: Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth HartmanA wounded Union army soldier is kept hidden by the denizens of an academyfor young Southern women. The swaggering Yankee charms his way into thelives of several of the seminarys residents, until jealousy and resentmentbegin to take hold. A frequent director of Eastwood, Siegel (Dirty Harry,Escape from Alcatraz) has crafted a compellingly creepy tale that is anamalgam of the Western, tragic romance, and gothic horror.


PHARAOH (FARAON)Poland | 1966 | DCP | 180 min. | Polish with English subtitlesDirector: Jerzy KawalerowiczCast: Jerzy Zelnik, Wieslawa Mazurkiewicz, Barbara BrylskaIn 12th century B.C., Rameses, son and heir to the Pharaoh, experiences apower struggle with Egypts high priests in his efforts to wage war on thePhoenicians. Fully restored to its original length, Kawalerowicz Oscar-nominated CinemaScope epic is one of the most fascinating and unique in allof Polish cinema.


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SAT., 3/28, 7 p.m.2 X AttenboroughBRIGHTON ROCKUK | 1947 | 35mm | 92 min.Director: John BoultingCast: Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William HartnellGraham Greene teamed with noted playwright Terrence Rattigan to adaptGreenes gangster novel. In the role that made him a star, Attenborough isPinkie Brown, a vicious but charismatic thug in a pre-war England resorttown. As Pinkie manipulates women and kills off his rivals, he grapples withhis own salvation; this duality is the seminal conflict in Greenes work.

SUN., 3/29, 2 p.m.ChazenUNIVERSAL 71RED SKY AT MORNINGUSA | 1971 | 35mm | 112 min.

Director: James GoldstoneCast: Richard Thomas, Claire Bloom, Richard CrennaWhen his father (Crenna) enlists in the navy in 1944, a teenage boy (a preWaltonsThomas) moves with his emotionally unstable mother (Bloom) toArizona. Our hero experiences first love and all of the emotions ofadolescence in this moving, unjustly forgotten adaptation of RichardBradfords popular coming-of-age novel. The wonderful cinematography isby the great Vilmos Zsigmond.

FRI., 4/3, 7 p.m.

POLISH MASTERPIECESBLIND CHANCE (PRZYPADEK)Poland | 1987 | DCP | 123 min. | Polish with English subtitlesDirector: Krzysztof KieslowskiCast: Boguslaw Linda, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Zbigniew ZapasiewiczUsing an exciting and experimental narrative device, Kieslowski exploresthree possible outcomes of Witek (Linda), a young man racing to catch atrain. In each of the three different lives, politics, friendships, sex, alliances,and betrayals all play a part, in their own unique ways. Kieslowski showshow any one of those elements can alter the fate of his hero.

SAT., 4/4, 7 p.m.2 X Attenborough10 RILLINGTON PLACEUK | 1971 | 35mm | 111 min.Director: Richard FleischerCast: Richard Attenborough, John Hurt, Judy GeesonIn a frighteningly real performance, Attenborough plays the notorious Britishserial killer John Christie, who murdered at least six women in his NottingHill flat during the 1940s and 1950s. An equally powerful Hurt plays Timothy


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Evans, Christies neighbor, and perhaps his ultimate victim. The rigorous,but unflashy direction by Richard Fleischer makes for a gripping tale of true-crime that puts it in a league withCompulsionand The Boston Strangler,Fleischers other masterworks of the genre.

SUN., 4/5, 2 p.m.ChazenUNIVERSAL 71TAKING OFFUSA | 1971 | 35mm | 93 min.Director: Milos FormanCast: Buck Henry, Lynn Carlin, Linnea HeacockBefore his career really took off with One Flew Over the Cuckoos NestCzech migr director Forman made his American debut with this veryfunny generation-gap comedy. While searching for their runaway hippieteenaged daughter Jeannie (Heacock), suburban New York middle-classparents Lynn and Larry Tyne (Carlin and Henry) begin a life-renewingjourney as they try to understand as much of the counter-culture as they

can experience.Their odyssey takes them to several locales in 1970 Manhattan, then upstateto a Catskills resort where they take in a thrilling performance by the Ikeand Tina Turner revue. Back on their own turf, the film climaxes in twounforgettable comic sequences: a society dinner turned pot party for richparents of runaways, and a strip poker game with Lynn and Larrys swingingnew friends. Shockingly, this masterpiece of 70s cinema has never beenreleased on home video in the United States, so dont miss this rare chanceto see a beautiful 35mm print on the bigscreen!

MON., 4/6, 7 p.m.Marquee TheaterMARQUEE MONDAYSDEATH WISH 3USA | 1985 | 35mm | 90 min.Director: Michael WinnerCast: Charles Bronson, Ed Lauter, Martin BalsamBronson reprises his role as Paul Kersey in the most violent, and ridiculous,chapter of the five film vigilante saga. Kersey returns to the big city(London, unconvincingly doubling for NYC) to face a bunch of marauding

punks with reverse mohawks. Encouraged by Balsams character to Blowthe scum away!, Kersey brings out a literal arsenal, complete with machineguns and hand grenades, to battle the gang. Preceding the feature, 20minutes of vintage Cannon trailers!

FRI., 4/17, 7 p.m.POLISH MASTERPIECESPROVINCIAL ACTORS (AKTORZY PROWINCJONALNI)Poland | 1979 | DCP | 121 min. | Polish with English subtitles


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Director: Agnieszka HollandCast: Halina Labonarska, Tadeusz Huk, Iwona BiernackaKrzysztof, a leading actor in a provincial theater troupe, locks horns with thedirector of a politically charged play. At home, he faces a crumblingmarriage as his puppeteer wife, Anka, grows impatient with his ego andneed to become a star. For her first feature as sole director, Holland (EuropaEuropa) convincingly and humorously depicts the pressures felt by artistsliving under a communist regime.

SAT., 4/18, 7 p.m.SPECIAL PRESENTATIONCALL ME MADAMUSA | 1953 | 35mm | 114 min.Director: Walter LangCast: Ethel Merman, Donald OConnor, George SandersIn one of her few film appearances, Broadway musical legend Mermanreprises her stage role as Sally Adams, a socialite appointed as UnitedStates Ambassador to the fictional country of Lichtenburg. Music and mirth

and a bit of political satire ensue as Sally charms Lichtenberg GeneralCosmo Constantine (Sanders), and facilitates the romance between herpress attach Kenneth (OConnor) and the Princess Maria (Vera-Ellen). Acharming and underappreciated musical, Foxs adaptation of Call Me Madamcontains a Tony-winning score by Irving Berlin; delightful choreography,including an amusing drunken dance with balloons expertly performed byOConnor; and, of course, Merman at her brassy, campy best. (AM)

SUN., 4/19, 2 p.m.Chazen

THE HIRED HANDUSA | 1971 | 35mm | 93 min.Director: Peter FondaCast: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna BloomDrifters and best friends, Harry (Fonda) and Arch (Oates) settle down towork for the wife (Bloom) that Harry abandoned seven years earlier. Butsoon, Harrys past comes back to haunt him. This gentle and lyrical western,with gorgeous cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond, marked the directorialdebut of pop icon Fonda.

FRI., 4/24, 7 p.m.

POLISH MASTERPIECESMAN OF IRON (CZLOWIEK Z ZELAZA)Poland | 1981 | DCP | 153 min. | Polish with English subtitlesDirector: Andrzej WajdaCast: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Lech WalesaWajda traces the history of the solidarity movement in Poland by followingthe fictional rise of a labor leader (Radziwilowicz) through the eyes of analcoholic radio journalist. Providing the story with great authenticity, Wajda


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weaves in actual footage of strikes and demonstrations led by Walesa, whoalso appears as himself at the wedding of the hero.

SAT., 4/25, 7 p.m.SPECIAL PRESENTATIONPRIVATE PROPERTYUSA | 1960 | 35mm | 79 min.Director: Leslie StevensCast: Kate Manx, Corey Allen, Warren OatesIn demented variation on Of Mice and Mens George and Lennie, Allen andOates play Duke and Boots, two pent-up drifters who stalk an Insurancesalesmans wife (Manx) in the Hollywood Hills. This thrilling piece ofpsychosexual noir from Orson Welles protegee Stevens was thought lost fordecades and only recently rediscovered! A newly restored 35mm print fromthe UCLA Film & Television Archive will be screened.

SAT., 4/25, 8:30 p.m.SPECIAL PRESENTATION

WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR?USA | 1965 | 35mm | 94 min.Director: Joseph CatesCast: Sal Mineo, Juliet Prowse, Elaine StritchAhead-of-its-time in sexual frankness, this independently filmed New YorkCity noir features the diminutive Mineo as a homicidal, smut-obsessedbusboy at a discotheque who makes anonymous obscene phone calls to theclubs head D.J. (Prowse). Lurid and shocking, Who Killed Teddy Bear?features a memorable turn by Broadway legend Stritch as the discos tough-as-nails manager.

SUN., 4/26, 2 p.m.ChazenTWO-LANE BLACKTOPUSA | 1971 | 35mm | 101 min.Director: Monte HellmanCast: Warren Oates, James Taylor, Dennis WilsonHellmans existential masterpiece has been compared to Bresson andAntonioni, but it is a uniquely American film, fascinated, like its protagonistswith the road and the culture of cars. Oates is the talkative GTO and musicstars Taylor and Wilson are almost silent as The Driver and The Mechanic.

The simple story has the three characters competing in a road race acrossthe American Southwest, but the film resonates in its right-on portrayal ofalienated, apathetic men withdrawing from the problems of the world into aself-absorbed life of revved up motors, loveless sexual encounters, andmeals served in diners.



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THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT (R!KOPIS ZNALEZIONY WSARAGOSSIE)Poland | 1964 | DCP | 183 min. | Polish with English subtitlesDirector: Wojchiech HasCast: Zbigniew Cybulski, Iga Cembrzynska, Elzbieta CzyzewskaThe moral testing of an officer in the Napoleonic Wars (Polish film idolCybulski) serves as the center of a Scheherezade-type plot that incorporatesnine interconnected tales told by various colorful narrators. The spellbindingand surreal narrative, with its multiple flashbacks-within-flashbacks, isaccentuated by gorgeous black-and-white widescreen cinematography andKrzysztof Penderecki's eclectic score. The Saragossa Manuscriptwasreportedly the favorite movie of the Grateful Deads Jerry Garcia.

SAT., 5/2, 7 p.m.SPECIAL PRESENTATIONA HARD DAYS NIGHTUK | 1964 | DCP | 85 min.Director: Richard Lester

Cast: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George HarrisonThe Beatles' first film follows the group over the course of one day as theydeal with the pressures of touring, flee from their screaming fans, andperform their most beloved early songs like the title tune, "Can't Buy MeLove," and "I Should Have Known Better. With Lester's inventive directionand the Fab Four's charm, it is no wonder that this classic is widely regardedas the best rock-'n'-roll movie ever made. A new 4K digital restoration willbe screened.

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ChazenTHE ANDROMEDA STRAINUSA | 1971 | 35mm | 131 min.Director: Robert WiseCast: James Olson. Arthur Hill, David WayneThe hills are not alive with the sound of music and just about everyone inthe small town of Piedmont, New Mexico is dead in director Wises masterfuladaptation of Michael Crichtons novel. Wonderfully clinical and unrelentinglystraight-faced, this science fiction thriller is both groundbreaking and hugelyinfluential. (BR)

MON., 5/4, 7 p.m.Marquee TheaterMARQUEE MONDAYSLIFEFORCEUSA | 1985 | 35mm | 101 min.Director: Tobe HooperCast: Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Mathilda MayCoffin-shaped spaceships can only mean one thing: Vampires from outerspace, and indeed, Tobe Hoopers loving ode to British Quartermass films


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and Mario Bavas color palette is based on a novel entitled The SpaceVampires. Gorgeously photographed in vivid widescreen, it features moredecomposing vampire corpses and full frontal female nudity than you canshake a stick at, prompting one line of dialogue that will make 12 year oldboys groan in disappointment for all eternity: Now she has clothes. (BR)

FRI., 5/8, 7 p.m.SPECIAL PRESENTATIONCELEBRITYUSA | 1928 | 35mm | 70 min.Director: Tay GarnettCast: Robert Armstrong, Clyde Cook, Lina BasquetteManager to flat broke, unsuccessful boxer Kid OBrien (Armstrong), fame-hungry Circus McKee (Cook) works up a scheme to pass Kid off as anaspiring writer. But will Kids newfound celebrity help when he faces offagainst the middleweight champion? Full of delightful late-1920s slang andvisual gags, Celebritywill be presented in an archival 35mm print from theLibrary of Congress. Live piano by David Drazin. (AM)

FRI, 5/8, 8:30 p.m.SPECIAL PRESENTATIONOKAY, AMERICA!USA | 1932 | 35mm | 78 min.Director: Tay GarnettCast: Lew Ayres, Maureen OSullivan, Louis CalhernWhile investigating a headline-making kidnapping, a popular and fearedcolumnist and radio host (Ayres, channelling Walter Winchell) follows a trailthat leads him from drug dealers to the mafia and ultimately to the White

House! "A wildly entertaining pre-Code expose on the greasy relationshipbetween politicians, organized crime, and the burgeoning American media"(Eddie Mueller)

SAT., 5/9, 7 p.m.SPECIAL PRESENTATIONCOMMUNICATION ARTS SHOWCASEHighlighting works produced in Communication Arts Media Productioncourses at UW Madison, this program is curated by the instructors of film,video and animation courses and gives new filmmakers the opportunity topresent their films on screen for the first time.

Unless otherwise noted, program descriptions by Jim Healy.Additionalwriting by Mike King (MK), Amanda McQueen (AM) and Ben Reiser (BR).

See you at the Movies!

Jim Healy, Director of Programming


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